New Leeds Parents to Receive Free Baby Boxes

The Baby Box Co. has already linked with healthcare organisations across the country and can now be accessed by parents to be in Leeds.

Credit: The Baby Box Co

Taking your newborn baby home for the first time is an exciting time, but it can also be the time when new worries start to emerge. To help encourage all pregnant women in Leeds to access maternity services, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has linked in with the Baby Box Co programme.

Baby Boxes have been provided to all mothers in Finland for over 75 years and the country has one of world's lowest infant mortality rates.

Essential information

As part of the scheme, all expectant parents who complete the online syllabus (details of which can be found here) will receive a free baby box.

The online programme supports the information that parents receive from their local healthcare professionals around safe sleeping and how they can help to reduce the incidents of cot deaths. It also gives them access to a range of information, such as short films created by the Leeds maternity team surrounding their pregnancy, birth and how to care for their baby.

Once they have completed the online programme they will receive a certificate, which they can use to get their free Baby Box.

Free Baby Box

The Baby Box initiative is a global programme that not only gives new parents education on keeping their baby safe and healthy, but it also provides free access to vital resources.

The box itself is a safe place for babies to sleep for the first five to six months of their life. They are manufactured from a durable cardboard and meet all the applicable safety standards for moses baskets. The boxes contain a large percentage of organic products and the mattresses have been independently certified as safe and non-toxic.

They are also filled with a selection of essential baby products, such as nappies, clothes, a sleeping bag and bedding.

Parents in Leeds can follow the Baby Box Co syllabus and find out more about applying for their free box here.